MATCH NOTES WTA FINALS - CHINA | Oct 27 - Nov 03, 2019 | $14,000,000 | CH [1] ASHLEIGH BARTY (AUS #1) vs. [ALT] KIKI BERTENS (NED #10) Head to Head: ASHLEIGH BARTY leads 4-0 2019 BEIJING HARD O SF ASHLEIGH BARTY 6-3 3-6 7-6(7) 140 mins 2019 MIAMI HARD O R16 ASHLEIGH BARTY 4-6 6-3 6-2 113 mins 2019 SYDNEY HARD O SF ASHLEIGH BARTY 6-7(4) 6-4 7-5 139 mins 2018 MONTREAL HARD O QF ASHLEIGH BARTY 6-3 6-1 55 mins ASHLEIGH BARTY KIKI BERTENS 1 WTA RANKING 10 1 PORSCHE RACE TO SHENZHEN LEADERBOARD 10 24-04-1996 (23) DATE OF BIRTH (AGE) 10-12-1991 (27) $6,887,587 YTD PRIZE MONEY $3,107,026 $12,095,667 CAREER PRIZE MONEY $9,629,150 3 / 6 SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) 2 / 9 1 / 10 DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) 0 / 10 1-0 WTA FINALS W-L (MD) * 2-2 53-11 / 137-60 YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) * 51-24 / 205-157 18-5 / 42-18 YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * 16-13 / 58-60 8-5 / 21-15 YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) * 11-12 / 44-50 34-8 / 87-38 YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * 25-16 / 89-100 3-2 / 12-6 YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) * 8-2 / 24-11 2-2 / 4-14 YTD / CAREER TOP 5 W-L (MD & Q) * 4-3 / 10-12 9-5 / 14-19 YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD & Q) * 7-3 / 22-23 16-7 / 30-35 YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD & Q) * 10-7 / 33-43 * Including 2019 Shenzhen RR results ROUND ROBIN RESULTS [1] ASHLEIGH BARTY (AUS #1) KIKI BERTENS (NED #10) RR: d. [7] BELINDA BENCIC (SUI #7) 5-7,6-1,6-2 (1h56) Total games: 27 Total games: 0 Won/lost: 17-10 Won/lost: 0-0 Sets won/lost: 2-1 Sets won/lost: 0-0 Total time on court: 1h56 Total time on court: 0h00 Average time on court: 1h56 Average time on court: 0h00 Average rank of opponent: 7 Average rank of opponent: 0 Insights Follow WTA on Twitter: www.twitter.com/WTA Facebook: www.facebook.com/WTA YouTube: www.youtube.com/WTA from MATCH NOTES WTA FINALS - CHINA | Oct 27 - Nov 03, 2019 | $14,000,000 | CH WTA FINALS Tournament History "-Q" Qualifying match KIKI BERTENS 2018 SF L - ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #7) 7-5 6-7(5) 6-4 Insights Follow WTA on Twitter: www.twitter.com/WTA Facebook: www.facebook.com/WTA YouTube: www.youtube.com/WTA from ASHLEIGH KIKI BARTY VS BERTENS SHENZHEN SHENZHEN • Making debut singles appearance at Shiseido WTA • Making second consecutive singles appearance at Finals Shenzhen. One of three debutantes in the the WTA Finals, having reached the SF stage on her field (also Bencic and Andreescu) debut in 2018 (l. eventual champion Svitolina) • Was the first singles player to qualify for Shenzhen • Defeated Kerber and Osaka, and fell to Stephens in following R16 run at US Open round robin stage during last year’s run • Is the first Australian to compete in singles at WTA • Also competed in doubles field at WTA Finals in 2017 Finals since Stosur in 2012 (as alternate, fell in RR). (w/Larsson, l. Babos/Sestini Hlavackova in F) Best result by an Australian at the tournament were • Enters this year’s WTA Finals as the first alternate title runs from Goolagong Cawley in 1974 and 1976 following the withdrawal of Osaka (right shoulder • In doubles, reached QF at WTA Finals in 2017 (w/ injury). The last alternate to compete at the year-end Dellacqua) and SF in 2018 (w/Vandeweghe) finale was Stosur in 2012 (Kvitova withdrew due to • Struck 30 winners - including 10 aces - during open- illness) ing round robin win over Bencic on Sunday • Faces No.1 Barty today in their fifth career meeting. • Now owns 53 match wins in 2019, the second most Aiming for her first win over the Australian and sec- on tour behind Bertens (54) ond win over a reigning World No.1, having defeated • This season, has struck 387 aces - third most on tour Halep in 2018 Cincinnati final behind Ka.Pliskova (481) and Bertens (448) • Owns a Tour-leading 54 match wins in 2019, ahead • Faces No.10 Bertens today. In their most recent of today’s opponent Barty with 53 meeting, saved one match point to defeat the Dutch- • Has struck 448 aces this season, the second most woman in a third set tiebreak at Beijing SFs on tour behind Ka.Pliskova on 481 • Owns the joint-most Top 10 wins of 2019 on Tour • Enters Shenzhen ranked No.10 - her 56th consecu- (nine) along with Bencic tive week inside the WTA Top 10 • Will advance to SF if she wins today and Bencic • During last year’s Asian swing, won title at Seoul, defeats Kvitova in the second match made R16 at Beijing, 2r at Wuhan, before going on to • Heading into Shenzhen, ranked second on tour in reach SF at WTA Finals in Singapore 2019 for percentage won of service points (63.7) and • Owns three hard court titles, at 2018 Cincinnati, 2018 third for service games (79.5) Seoul and 2019 St. Petersburg • During WTA Finals will spend her 15th non-consecu- tive week as World No.1. Is joined in China by three SEASON other former No.1s (Ka.Pliskova, Osaka and Halep) • One of five Slam singles champions competing in • Coming off R-Up finish at Zhuhai as the top seed (l. Shenzhen (Osaka, Halep, Andreescu and Kvitova) Sabalenka in F) • Owns fine record on Chinese soil, winning the title • Made back-to-back QFs at Linz (l. Gauff) and Mos- at 2018 Zhuhai, finishing R-Up at 2017 Wuhan and cow (l. Mladenovic) 2019 Beijing, and reaching three further SFs • Needed to reach the final in Moscow in order to secure final qualifying spot in Shenzhen • Reached SF at Beijing (l. No.1 Barty in 3s), R16 at SEASON Wuhan (l. Sabalenka), fell 2r at Zhengzhou (l. Toml- janovic) and 1r at Osaka (l. Pavlyuchenkova) Coming off R-Up finish at Beijing (l. Osaka); now • • Reached 3r at US Open (l. Goerges) owns 6-5 win-loss record in WTA singles finals • Suffered 2r exit as defending champion at Cincinnati • Also during Asian swing, posted SF showing at Wu- (after 1r bye, l. V. Williams) han (l. eventual champion Sabalenka) • Fell 2r at Toronto (l. eventual champion • Made R16 at US Open (l. Q.Wang); also R-Up in Andreescu) doubles (w/Azarenka, l. Mertens/Sabalenka) • Reached fourth final of 2019 at Palermo (l. Teich- • Reached SF at Cincinnati (l. Kuznetsova) mann). Has now reached four finals the last two • Suffered 2r exit at Toronto (after 1r bye, l. Kenin) years. In 2018, won Charleston, Cincinnati and • Made R16 at Wimbledon for the first time (l. Riske) Seoul, and finished R-Up at Madrid Became the first Roland Garros champion to lift a • • Upset in 3r of Wimbledon (l. Strycova) grass court title in the same season since Henin • Posted SF appearance at Eastbourne (l. eventual in 2007 by winning Birmingham (d. Goerges in F); champion Ka.Pliskova) became the first Australian woman in 43 years to • Recorded a final run on home soil in ‘s-Hertogen- reach WTA singles No.1 following Birmingham (June bosch, could not convert five championship points in 24, 2019) loss to Riske Won first Grand Slam title at Roland Garros (d. Von- • • At Roland Garros, retired from 2r match against drousova in F) ASHLEIGH KIKI BARTY VS BERTENS SEASON CONT. SEASON CONT. • Made QF at Madrid (l. Halep), R16 at Rome (l. Mlad- Kuzmova due to gastrointestinal illness enovic); withdrew from Strasbourg (right arm injury) • SF showing at Rome (l. Konta – after coming within • Lifted 10th career doubles title at Rome (w/Azarenka) two points of victory) • Won biggest title of career at the time at 2019 Miami • Won ninth career title at Madrid, defeating four Grand – run included three Top 10 wins, over No.8 Bertens Slam champions en route (Ostapenko, Kvitova, (R16), No.2 Kvitova (QF) and No.7 Ka.Pliskova (F) Stephens and Halep in F). Also first woman to win • Win over Kvitova at Miami was 200th of career (in- Madrid title without dropping a set cluding ITF Circuit) and 100th at main draw level • Reached career high ranking of World No.4 on May • Made Top 10 rankings debut after Miami triumph 13 (after Madrid title run) (week of April 1) at No.9 (rose from No.11); became • Posted SF run at Stuttgart (l. eventual champion Kvi- ninth Australian woman to crack the elite bracket tova); d. No.5 Kerber in QF for first Top 5 win of 2019 • Made R16 at Indian Wells (l. Svitolina in sixth longest • Fell in R16 (Sakkari) during Charleston title defense match so far in 2019 – 3hr 12min) • Posted R16 showings at Indian Wells (l. Muguruza) • Led Australia to 3-2 away win over USA on Fed and Miami (l. eventual champion Barty) Cup duty in February, defeating Kenin and Keys in • In Middle East, reached QF at Doha (l. eventual singles before teaming up with Hon to win decisive champion Mertens) and fell 2r at Dubai (after 1r bye, doubles rubber over Collins and Melichar. Also won l. Kuzmova - held 1mp in third set tie-break) both singles rubbers in Fed Cup SF against Belarus • Won eighth career title - and third at Premier level in Brisbane (d.